Witty, exuberant, and irresistibly entertaining, Shaw's fifth and most ambitious novel is a brilliant satire on social prejudice
Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, "loves" him: he must abandon her. Son of a millionaire, he gives up everything to pose as an "umble peasant." But when this unsocial socialist goes to work as a gardener in the vicinity of a girls' school he meets his match for Agatha Wylie is a new kind of woman, perfectly...
Witty, exuberant, and irresistibly entertaining, Shaw's fifth and most ambitious novel is a brilliant satire on social prejudice
A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - plus bonus drama The `B' Word, telling the story of the play's scandalous opening night Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk `like a lady' and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador's Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she's one of them? And what will become of her afterwards? This effervescent radio version of Shaw's classic comedy features a stellar...
A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - plus bonus drama The `B' Word, telling the story of the play's scandalous opening ni...
Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells are among the best-known and most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Both were rebelliously critical of the social and political, familial and sexual conventions and structures of their time. They shared broadly similar interests, but their lifestyles differed sharply - as did their views on many subjects, including those discussed in their correspondence: religion, socialism, science, war and world history, the theatre, the profession of authorship, and more. The letters are always forthright, often abusive and quarrelsome, sometimes...
Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells are among the best-known and most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Both were rebelliously critical...
